The already talent-heavy Days Like This! festival in Sydney is now even more enticing, with the addition of more international and local names.

Heading the new crop is encyclopedic tastemaker Mr Scruff, whose wide-ranging (and often very long) DJ sets navigate through reggae, soul, dub, hip hop and everything in between. He’s joined by fellow beatmakers A Guy Called Gerald, Radioslave and Mike Monday. We had our fingers crossed for Mos Def, but when you’ve already got Public Enemy, things look pretty peachy…

The local line-up is equally classy, including internationally-recognised luminaries Jamie Lloyd & Jimi Polar, Killaqueenz, Deepchild and Canyons. The full bill now looks like nothing else you’ll see this festival season. It all goes down across four stages (including outdoors, woo!) on the first weekend of 2009.

Days Like This! Festival
Sunday 4 January 2009, 12-10pm
Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park, Sydney

Fat Freddys Drop
Public Enemy
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Morcheeba
Atmosphere feat. Brother Ali
The Dodos
Gilles Peterson feat. MC Earl Zinger
Carl Craig
Radioslave
Mr Scruff
A Guy Called Gerald
Mike Monday
Platinum Pied Pipers
Eli “Paperboy” Reed & The True Loves
Yo Majesty
South Rakkas Crew
Katalyst
Flying Lotus
Recloose
Ladi 6
Waajeed
Mark Pritchard & Steve Spacek
DJ Vadim feat. Yarah Bravo
Watussi
Killaqueenz
Deepchild
Ro Sham Bo
Uberlingua DJs
Canyons
Paradise Lost Crew
Simon Caldwell
Jamie Lloyd & Jimi Polar
Bec Paton
Soulshaker Crew
Thief
Murat Killac
Stereo Thieves
Huwston
Motech
Trevor Parkee
Gordan Watson
DJ Kavi-R
Jimmi James Vs Zootie (Mad Racket)